Every turn in the K-dot versus Drizzy saga has been like this: loud, flashy and popcorn-worthy. When “Not Like Us” dropped ...

How does a truly terrible song end up an otherwise flawless album? Blame ego-appeasing band-politics concessions, drug-fueled studio experiments, songwriters working through a few too many ...

Lady Gaga released her new album, "Mayhem," on Friday. Marketed as a return to her industrial-pop roots, the album is brighter and funkier than expected. Put in conversation, the album's rollout ...

the album featured host of musicians and backing singers who helped give the record an authentic soulful sound. Once such contributor was a then-unknown singer Luther Vandross, who lent his ...

He formed a band in the mid-1990s and released the first of five albums under his stage name, Luther "Badman" Keith, in 1999. "He was the anchor of our horrid softball team," Finley recalled.

Thankfully, Hamilton Leithasuer’s latest album extends those fleeting seconds for as long as they’ll hold in a blitzkrieg of pure, adrenalised eudaimonia. So, henceforth, I shall honour its valorous ...

In the musical genre, odds are the film is based on a Broadway or West End production. On rarer occasions, an album can provide the jumping-off point for a film. That may sound bizarre as albums tend ...

Album of the Week -- Lady Gaga, “Mayhem” (Interscope): Gaga’s been busy during the past five years -- with the late Tony Bennett, soundtracks (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Harlequin” and ...